Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...million in next to no time. I have always taken American newspapers with a large grain of salt and personally think ours far superior, but TIME is a dog of another colour altogether. Well, here's best wishes and I hope you soon have a much bigger sale, you surely deserve it. FRANK BYWELL...
...they as a group would do. Mr. William son's committee has been meeting in Manhattan off & on for the past month, has adjourned each time without announce ment. It is an open secret that Pennsy and Central are willing to compromise, but New Haven, which derives a bigger pro portion of its gross revenues from passen ger traffic than any other major U. S. road (38%), is flatly opposed to any & all fare-cutting. Observers believed last week that the Eastern roads might soon eliminate the Pullman surcharge and reduce the basic one-way fare...
...bigger kidnapping news than Oklahoma City's came from Memphis where George R. ("Machine Gun'') Kelly fell into the hands of the police. Wanted in Oklahoma City for the Urschel kidnapping, wanted in Kansas City for murder, wanted in Chicago and St. Paul for robbery and murder, Kelly-a heavyset, black-haired ex-convict who got into crime via bootlegging and who boasts that he can write his name on a wall with machine gun bullets-had been eluding Federal authorities for more than three months. Thanks to an intercepted telegram and the story...
...peculiarity of newborn babies is that they lose weight the first two or three days of life. The loss runs up to 10% of the baby's initial weight. Bigger babies lose more in percent as well as in ounces than smaller babies. Males lose more than females, firstborns more than subsequent brothers and sisters, Latin babies more than Nordics, babies born in wards more than private room babies...
Bill buckled to his job like a good one, but he would never have got far had not San Talal been amenable. The two became great pals, plotted busily for a bigger, brighter Mandoa. They built an aerodrome, a hotel, planned an elaborate jamboree like the Abyssinian coronation at Addis Ababa which should put Mandoa on the map. Wily old Ma'buta, leader of the Mandoan conservatives, bided his time, got quickly richer on the bribes San Talal fed him for noninterference. The much-publicized jamboree, culminating in the state marriage of a Mandoan princess to an Abyssinian prince...